7:52 AM ET Israel Adesanya didn’t have to pick Yoel Romero for his first title defense. The UFC middleweight champ could have waited until top contender Paulo Costa healed from his biceps surgery before putting his belt on the line. But Adesanya wants to stay active and beat the toughest guys in the division, so
Month: March 2020
6:00 AM ET It’s hard to find something to complain about when it comes to examining quarterback Joe Burrow‘s prolific final year at LSU. He slipped away from pocket pressure, set passing records and commandeered the Tigers to their first national championship since 2007. All of that culminated with Burrow ascending draft boards, where he
7:09 AM ET Williams boss Claire Williams has said that Formula One must be “incredibly responsible and enormously responsive” about the coronavirus outbreak as it attempts to start the 2020 season on schedule. F1’s first three races are ‘flyaways’ to Australia, Bahrain and Vietnam. The fourth race, the Chineae Grand Prix, has been postponed from
7:00 AM ET It’s undeniable that NHL awards campaigns can be made or abandoned in the last month of the season. Recency bias is very much a thing, considering that the ballots aren’t sent out until near the end of the season and the votes are sent in right up until the first game of
8:00 AM ET LAKELAND, Fla. — The New York Yankees are heavy favorites to win the American League East, after adding Gerrit Cole. The Tampa Bay Rays won 96 games last year, and nearly derailed the Houston Astros‘ run to the World Series. The Boston Red Sox, on the other hand, traded their best player,
6:55 AM ET With 11 minutes remaining in Formula One’s preseason testing, the FIA released a short statement saying it had investigated Ferrari’s power unit and reached a confidential agreement with the Italian team. The timing, brevity and unexpected content of the email immediately set alarm bells ringing in the paddock, not least because those
6:15 AM ET European golfers have hit back at comments from former PGA Tour professional Paul Azinger after he belittled the significance of the European Tour during NBC’s Honda Classic final round coverage on Sunday. Azinger implied during the broadcast that wins on the PGA Tour are more significant and harder to achieve in comparison
10:13 AM GMT Match abandoned West Indies v South Africa A wash out at the Sydney Showgrounds ensured South Africa would top group B and so play Australia in the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup at the SCG on Thursday evening, after England meet group A’s pace-setters India in the first semi-final. Rain
4:30 AM ET The women’s Kunming Open tennis tournament scheduled to begin in April in China’s Anning city has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, the WTA Tour said on Tuesday. The April 27-May 3 claycourt event, which features 32 singles players and 16 doubles teams, is the second 125K series tournament to be
2:21 AM ET Associated Press GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Eugenio Suarez was playing in a swimming pool with his children at home in Pinecrest, Florida, and decided to dive into the shallow half. The Cincinnati Reds third baseman hit the bottom of the pool and wound up with a shoulder injury that has set him back